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In a cosmic first, scientists say they have detected a planet that may have formed from the burned remains of its dead host star. When a sunlike star dies, it first rapidly expands into a red giant ...

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf, a world that appears to have formed from the remains of the dead star it now orbits. A team of ...

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted theoretically more than 15 years ago. But this “phoenix” world, if confirmed, ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, making Elias 2-24 b the youngest known planet and giving scientists a rare look at a world still being born. Its ...

Picture a star, about half the sun’s mass shining with a dim red light. Lumbering around it on a 5,000-year orbit is a huge orb called a brown dwarf, which is much heavier than a planet but still not ...

Twenty years ago Pluto lost its planethood, and I’m partially to blame. “Blame” is a strange word to use for what seems like a matter of mere semantics; after all, Pluto exists as an intriguing world ...

Many people have formed strong opinions on this topic in an ongoing cultural conversation — you might even have one yourself. Pluto had been known as the ninth planet of our solar system ever since it ...

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Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...